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Music History & Musicology Forthcoming, New and Recent Titles Historical Atlas of Medieval Music The History of European Jazz edited by Vera Minazzi and Cesarino Ruini The Music, Musicians Music is rooted in the heart of Western culture. The absence and Audience in Context of music from the usual publications of medieval history edited by Francesco Martinelli and history of art of the Middle Ages is understandable, The increased circulation of people and ideas considering the rarity of sources. And yet, throughout the within Europe is not matched by an awareness last decades, an intense activity of historico-musicological of a shared history among its jazz community. research has been carried out internationally by a select In the course of almost a century, European group of specialized scholars. The ambitious goal of this jazz musicians not only produced a corpus of work is to set medieval music within its historical and cul- work worthy of much wider appreciation, but tural context and to provide readers interested in different also adopted strategies to deal with a variety of disciplines with an overall picture of music in the Middle situations, ranging from outright prohibition to survival in the market and institutions. Ages; multifaceted, enjoyable, yet scientifically rigorous. To This volume provides an organic overview of European jazz history in order to serve as achieve this goal, the most prominent scholars of medieval an inspiration for new generations of listeners and musicians independently of current musicology were invited to participate, along with archae- marketing hype. It covers the linear narrative of jazz history in Europe from its inception ologists, experts of acoustics and architecture, historians to the year 2000 presented on a geographical basis country by country. Each article is and philosophers of medieval thought. The volume offers authored by a jazz history specialist from the specific country contextualizing the music exceptional iconography and several maps to accompany in the cultural landscape of that country, discussing the most influential figures of its the reader in a fascinating journey through a network of development, and referencing the sometimes considerable literature available in the places, cultural influences, rituals and themes. national language. An unprecedented pool of authors makes much of this information 288p, 380 col illus (Brepols Publishers, March 2018) available in English for the first time. paperback, 9782503540849, $125.00. 600p, illus (Equinox Publishing, February 2018) hardcover, 9781781794463, $250.00. Special Offer $100.00 Special Offer $200.00 70 Enterprise Drive, Suite 2 • Bristol, CT 06010, USA Distributor of phone: (+1) 860 584 6546 • fax: (+1) 860 516 4873 Scholarly Books www.isdistribution.com • [email protected] Trajectories and Themes Sounds Northern in World Popular Music Popular Music, Culture and Place Globalization, Capitalism, Identity in England’s North by Simone Krüger Bridge edited by Ewa Mazierska This book offers a way to study world Many bands and performers coming from popular music from the perspective of critical the North, including the Beatles, the social theory. It provides a powerful contem- Animals, the Smiths, Joy Division, Pulp and porary framework for contemporary popular Oasis belong to most popular and influential music studies with a distinctive global pop-rock musicians in the world. This collec- and interdisciplinary awareness, covering tion presents some of the less well-known empirical research from across the world in facets of popular music in the North of Eng- addition to well-established and newer theory. land, examining how popular music reflected on various aspects of the North. 288p, 2 figs (Equinox Publishing, April 2018) 256p, 20 photos (Equinox Publishing, March 2018) paperback, 9781781796221, $29.95. Special Offer $24.00 paperback, 9781781795712, $29.95. Special Offer $24.00 hardcover, 9781781796214, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 hardcover, 9781781795705, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 This is Hip Mosaics The Life of Mark Murphy The Life and Works of Graham Collier by Peter Jones by Duncan Heining This Is Hip is more than a biography: it also evaluates Murphy’s work as a Graham Collier’s career in jazz lasted over five singer and as a teacher of singers. Based on numerous interviews with those decades. He was a bassist, a band-leader, a who knew him best, the book delves into a performing and recording career composer, an educator and an author, who that spanned 60 years and earned him five Grammy nominations. wrote extensively about the music. Mosaics 224p, 27 photos (Equinox Publishing, March 2018, Popular Music History) draws extensively on Collier’s personal hardcover, 9781781794739, $29.95. Special Offer $24.00 archive, as well as on interviews with fellow musicians, ex-students and colleagues. It Bill Russell and the locates Collier and his work within the social and cultural changes which occurred during his life. New Orleans Jazz Revival 256p, 17 photos (Equinox Publishing, March 2018, Popular Music History) by Ray Smith and Mike Pointon hardcover, 9781781792636, $35.96. Special Offer $29.00 This is the first full-length book about Mr. Russell's life to be mostly “in his Sounds Icelandic own words.” The book is based largely edited by Þorbjörg Daphne Hall, Nicola Dibben, on personal interviews about the great Árni Heimir Ingólfsson and Tony Mitchell diversity of his life's work, interspersed This is a book of wide-ranging essays on different aspects of Icelandic music, with views and anecdotes about him from the ancient traditional chants of rímur to the large output of classical from his friends and associates and music by nationalist composer Jón Leifs and others, to the plethora of Icelan- archival material. These sources give dic rock and pop groups that have already made an impact on the world as a portrait of an extremely talented, modest man who forsook an academic well as more idiosyncratic and genre-bending musicians now emerging from career to become a champion of the music and musicians of New Orleans. the Reykjavik music scene. 384p, 308 b/w illus (Equinox Publishing, January 2018, Popular Music History) 256p (Equinox Publishing, February 2018) hardcover, 9781781791455, $90.00. hardcover, 9781781791691, $49.95. Special Offer $40.00 Special Offer $72.00 2 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 950–17 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Nineteenth-Century Music Criticism Musical Theatre in Europe edited by Teresa Cascudo García- 1830–1945 Villaraco edited by Michela Niccolai The long nineteenth century encompasses and Clair Rowden what has been described by some authors From the mid-1800s in Europe as newspaper civilization. Music was fun- there was a vigorous and enthu- damental for many men and women who siastic expansion of diverse forms lived during that century. Not surprisingly, of musical theatre. An explosion at this time, music was a common theme in of different types of venues—the the press. On the one hand, news, chronicles cabarets, music-halls and private and criticism played a central part in the theaters—rubbed shoulders with musical market, since the success of that market was predicated on the dissemina- the subsidized and official theaters offering more established types of tion of information about performers, musical events and new repertoires. On spectacle. In the midst of this creative dynamism, alongside revues and the other hand, the prominence of music opened the door to new types of critical café-concert spectacles, operetta and its derivative forms took centre reflection in longer essays. Writings about music in those years were the result stage. This volume offers a panoramic vision of the diverse genres and of artistic aspirations and preferences; the same writings also present evidence types of musical theatre which multiplied and blossomed during this of prejudices and modes of perception marked by specific ideological issues. This period, and is divided into six sections: the revue de fin d’année as a volume collects twenty-two articles that address these issues, focusing on case theatrical genre which also influenced all other lighter genres in France studies in Europe and America. The collection reflects the growing importance of during its heyday; dance music in Offenbach’s operettas and his musical music criticism and the press as objects of study for contemporary musicology. recreation of the Parisian soundscape; transformation of the opera 552p (Brepols Publishers, July 2017, Music, Criticism & Politics 3) hardcover, repertoire in operetta and revue parodies; Viennese operetta and English 9782503574974, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 operetta and musical comedy from the end of the ‘reign’ of Gilbert and Sullivan until the outbreak of World War II; diverse theatrical practices Opera in Search of the Just Ruler from Parisian puppet theater to contemporary Italian operetta before for a Unified Italy the rise of Fascism; and national case studies. edited by Jehoash Hirshberg 400p, illus (Brepols Publishers, November 2017, Speculum Musicae 30) hardcover, 9782503577661, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 With the establishment of Il Regno d’Italia in 1861 the heydays of Risorgimento opera as a powerful political tool were over. A new The Repertory of Processional Antiphons category of operas, which is the subject of by Clyde W. Brockett the present book, was that of the politically Processions formed an essential part of the presentation of liturgical